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 Faculty Listing
Total Records: 53
Last Name First Name Research/Clinical Interest Title Keywords
ANANTHARAMAIAH GATTADAHALLI Apolipoproteins, Amphipathic Helices and Atherosclerosis
BARNES HELEN Proteomics of neuroprotective and chemopreventive actions of dietary phytochemicals neuroprotection, proteomics, protein modifications, antioxidant dietary supplements, menopause, neurogenesis
BEVENSEE MARK Cellular and Molecular Physiology of Acid-base Transporters and pH Regulation acid-base, bicarbonate, transporter, brain, fluorescence dyes, glia , heart, intracellular pH, microelectrodes, neuron, Xenopus oocyte, neuronal firing, kidney, polycystic kidney disease, epithelial sodium channel
BLALOCK JAMES Rational Drug and Vaccine Design/Neutrophilic Inflammation
BRENNER MICHAEL Molecular Sudies of Astrocytes in Health and Disease astrocyte, GFAP, transcription, neurodegeneration, transgenic mice
BRITT WILLIAM Human Herpesviruses, Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis cytomegalovirus, perinatal infections, virus assembly
COWELL RITA Cellular Vulnerability in Development and Aging: Using the Molecular Phenotype of Neurons to Elucidate Mechanisms of Disease and Identify Targets for Intervention Transcription, Parkinson Disease, ALS, frontotemporal dementia, movement disorders, Neuroanatomy, Metabolism, Mitochondria, Neurobiology, Mouse models
DAY JEREMY Neurobiology of motivated and learned behaviors Epigenetics, addiction, memory, molecular mechanisms, optogenetics
FULLER CATHERINE ENaC/ASIC Ion Channels; Sodium channels, glioma, migration, proliferation, cancer, signaling, polycystic kidney disease
GAMBLE KAREN NIH funded projects (active): Circadian dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease; The nigral molecular clock and vulnerability to neurodegeneration circadian rhythms, biological clocks, shift work, entrainment, suprachiasmatic nucleus
GAMLIN PAUL Studies of the Neural Bases of Vision & Eye Movements pupil, vergence, gene therapy, fMRI
GAWNE TIMOTHY Information Processing in the Central Nervous System EEG, MEG, myopia, schizophrenia, cerebral cortex, vision, retina
GOLDBERG MATTHEW Molecular mechanisms of Parkinson's disease pathogenesis
GRAY MICHELLE Pathogenesis of Huntington's Disease Huntington's disease, neurodegeneration, neuroscience, astrocytes
GROSS ALECIA GPCR trafficking in neurons and rhodopsin-mediated retinal degenerations rhodopsin, autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa, GPCR trafficking, rab11, nudC, MKS proteins, NPHP proteins, BBS proteins, retinal degeneration, inflammatory response in retina, cilia, protein trafficking
HABEGGER KIRK FGF21 as mediator of the metabolic actions of glucagon & Duodenal nutrient exclusion enhances glucose metabolism via CNS regulation
HABLITZ JOHN Cellular Mechanisms of Neurotransmission
HAN XIAOSI Epigenetic Regulation in Glioblastoma glioblastoma, protein argine methyltransferase-5, glioma stem cell, epigenetics
HARMS ASHLEY Neuroimmunology of Alpha-Synucleinopathy Disorders Neuroimmunology, Neuroscience, Immunology, Neurodegeneration, Aging, Glia
HARTMAN JOHN Experimental models of gene interaction networks that buffer human disease using cell array phenotyping of yeast gene knockout libraries yeast genetics, quantitative high throughput cell array phenotyping (Q-HTCP), gene interaction networks, cellular quiescence, aging, cystic fibrosis, chemotherapy response, systems biology, drug discovery, lab automation
HERSKOWITZ JEREMY Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid, signaling, plasticity, behavior, neuroscience, cell biology
KADISHA INGA The role of white matter changes in aging and Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's Disease, Aging, Cognition
KANO SHINICHI Immunology of brain homeostasis and disease Neuroimmunology, Glia, Cytokine, Epigenetics, Extracellular vesicles, Schizophrenia
KING PETER 1) RNA Regulation of Inflammation in ALS and other Neurodegenerative Disorders, 2) Smads as Biomarkers of ALS Disease Progressionh RNA stability; AU-rich elements; cytokines and chemokines; glioblastoma; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, stroke, spinal cord injury, HuR, KSRP
KORF BRUCE Neurofibromatosis Type 1 neurofibromatosis; neurogenetics; molecular diagnosis, genomic medicine
KRAFT TIMOTHY Physiology and Pathophysiology of Photoreceptors
LAHTI ADRIENNE Neuroimaging psychiatry, schizophrenia, research, lahti
LIU RUI-MING Oxidative stress, Aging, Lung fibrosis, Alzheimer's disease
LUBIN FARAH Molecular genetic mechanisms in learning and memory Epigenetics, signal transduction, gene transcription, CRISPR-dCas9, neurology, neuroscience, learning and memory, aging, epilepsy, Alzheimer's Disease
MARKERT JAMES Engineering Herpes Simplex Viruses for the Therapy of Cancer glioma, gene therapy, brain tumors, herpes simplex, cancer therapy, immunotherapy, anti-angiogenic therapy
MELENDEZ-FERRO MIGUEL
OWSLEY CYNTHIA
PARPURA VLADIMIR The role of glial cells in physiology of nervous system. astrocyte, autism spectrum disorder, carbon nanotubes, glial biology, gliomas, enteric glia, exocytosis, glutamate, glial-neuronal signaling, intellectual disability, nanotechnology, neural prosthesis, optogenetics, physiology, pathology
POZZO-MILLER LUCAS Neurotrophins in Synapse Development and Plasticity, Intellectual Disabilities, and Syndromic Autisms BDNF, Ca2+, Synapse, Rett Syndrome, Hippocampus, Dendritic Spines, MeCP2, Autism, Intellectual Disability
QIN HONGWEI
RAMAN CHANDER Lymphocyte activation, immunopathogenesis of systemic and neuroimmune autoimmune disease, inflammatory diseases of the skin. Autoimmunity, Multiple Sclerosis, Skin inflammatory diseases
ROBERSON ERIK Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, tau, progranulin, excitability, signaling, plasticity, behavior
SHACKA JOHN Targeting the Autophagy-Lysosome Pathway for Therapeutic Benefit in Parkinson's Disease Autophagy; Lysosome; Parkinson's; Synuclein; Alpha-Galactosidase
SHRESTHA SADEEP
STANDAERT DAVID Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases Parkinsons Disease, Dystonia, Movement Disorders
STOVER NATIVIDAD
SUN LIOU Aging, longevity and Alzheimer's Disease Aging, longevity and Alzheimer's Disease
SZTUL ELIZABETH Membrane Traffic; Protein Degradation Cystic fibrosis, membrane traffic, degradation, quality control
VISSCHER KRISTINA Cognitive Neuroscience attention, memory, older adults, aging, training, ongoing activity, EEG, fMRI, human neuroscience
VOLPICELLI-DALEY LAURA Cognitive impairments in Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementias Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementias, synuclein, tau, glucocerebrosidase, cell biology of the neuron, neurodegeneration
WADICHE JACQUES Cellular and molecular basis of synaptic transmission and neuronal organization of microcircuits glutamate transport, synaptic transmission, cerebellum
WADICHE LINDA The function of adult generated neurons and interneurons in the dentate gyrus synapse, neurogenesis, epilepsy, hippocampus, inhibition
WESSELMANN URSULA Pathophysiological mechanisms of chronic pain syndromes in women pain, women’s health, viscera, pelvic, urogenital, sexual pain, breast cancer, chemotherapy, racial disparities, gender differences
WYSS JAMES Neuroplasticity in aging and neuro cardiovascular control Alzheimers, hypertension, neuronal plasticity, behavior, blood pressure, botanicals, STEM education
YACOUBIAN TALENE Role of 14-3-3 proteins in Parkinson’s disease Parkinsons disease; Neurobiology; Molecular Genetics & Disease
YANG EDDY Targeting DNA repair pathways to augment the therapeutic ratio for cancer patients nanostring, profiling, DNA damage, DNA repair, EGFR, cancer, PARP, apoptosis, brain, protection, GSK3
YUSUF NABIHA Innate immune mechanisms in tumor development immune system, cancer, inflammation, skin, epidemiology
ZHANG JIANHUA Mechanisms and regulation of autophagy-lysosomal pathway in health and diseases Autophagy, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, lysosomes, mitochondria, redox signaling